Author: Jesse Landry

Some companies chase claims. Claimify chases clarity. And in the disability insurance world, clarity is currency. Claimify just secured a strategic growth investment from Ambler Brook, announced Feb 23, 2026. No chest-thumping about valuation. No fireworks about round size. Just a quiet signal that serious capital sees serious infrastructure being built inside a corner of the benefits ecosystem most people only notice when something goes wrong. Congratulations to Brett A. Albren, Esq., Co-Founder and CEO of Claimify, and to Michael Crowe, senior leader with more than 30+ years in disability and workers’ compensation, who will join the Board of Directors…

There is a certain sound inside an accounting firm when the deadline clock starts talking. Keyboards accelerate. Coffee turns into strategy. Everyone insists the spreadsheet is stable while it quietly calculates its own rebellion. That pressure point is exactly where Matt Harpe, Co-Founder and CEO, and Mitchell Troyanovsky, Co-Founder, decided to build. Basis was not created to decorate workflows. It was built to do the work. A team of AI agents that autonomously completes accounting tasks across tax, audit, and core accounting. Agents that run for extended periods, adapt to client nuance, collaborate at critical decision points, and take real…

On February 24, 2026, Neural Earth closed a $9.3M Seed round. Oversubscribed. 3×. When capital crowds the table like that, it is not hype. It is belief. Miami-based and built under Neural Labs, Inc., Neural Earth was founded in 2022 with a sharp thesis: climate risk is outpacing legacy models, and property and casualty insurers are absorbing the shock. Roughly 15 full-time employees as of March 2024, within an 11–50 range, one-third in South Florida and the rest distributed. Lean team. Serious mandate. Blair Austin Childs, Co-Founder and CEO, saw the Florida property insurance crisis up close. Premiums doubling. Tripling.…

General Magic just pulled $7.2M out of the ether, and no, that’s not a nostalgia tour of the 90s. This is a Toronto insurtech startup that decided insurance shouldn’t feel like dialing into a fax machine with anxiety. The round was oversubscribed, led by Radical Ventures, with a16z Speedrun back in the mix and operators like Brendan O’Driscoll of Figma, Larry James Erwin of OpenAI, Aidan Gomez of Cohere, Kevin Wang and Spencer Burke of Braze leaning in. Smart money recognizes signal. Respect where it’s due. Anthony Azrak and Jai Mansukhani, co-founders of General Magic, built this with scars from…

There is something poetic about a company named Slang AI raising a Series B in a world where restaurants live and die by how they talk. Words move tables. Tone moves tips. Timing moves revenue. In an industry that clears more than $1.1 trillion a year, conversation is currency, and Slang AI just proved it knows how to print. Congratulations to Alex Sambvani, Co-Founder and CEO, and Gabriel Duncan, Co-Founder and former CTO, on locking in this next chapter. Building voice infrastructure for restaurants is not glamorous work. It is operational. It is gritty. It is Tuesday night at 7:12…

Multicoin Capital does not chase noise. Multicoin Capital hunts signal. Founded in 2017 by Tushar Jain and Kyle Samani, the firm stepped into crypto before consensus formed, before allocators felt safe, before infrastructure felt inevitable. The premise was direct: blockchains would not orbit the global economy, they would rewire it. That conviction was published in essays, defended in public, and expressed through concentrated capital. In a market that rewards speed, Multicoin Capital chose depth. Tushar Jain, Co Founder and Managing Partner, leads portfolio construction, risk management, and trading. His path from founding ePatientFinder, later acquired by Elligo Health Research, to…

Apryse does not whisper. It renders. It signs. It seals. And right now it is sizing up a market that runs on documents the way Wall Street runs on caffeine. Founded in 1998 in Vancouver as PDFTron Systems by Catherine Andersz and Ivan Nincic, Apryse grew up inside the plumbing of enterprise software, powering the invisible layer where PDFs are viewed, edited, annotated, and secured. In 2022, after Thoma Bravo acquired a majority stake, leadership shifted with precision: Cassidy Smirnow stepped in as CEO and Joel Martins as CTO, while Catherine Andersz and Ivan Nincic moved to the board. The…

Somewhere between the inbox and the loading dock, wholesale turns grown adults into spreadsheet monks. Purchase orders show up like unsolicited opinions, mostly by email, and suddenly your “high growth” CPG brand is doing interpretive dance across attachments, EDI, Shopify, Amazon, and whatever system your 3PL swears is “basically real time.” That pain has a zip code now. Jampack AI, operating out of 90 Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11205, with the legal paperwork living as Jampack Labs, Inc. at 651 N Broad St in Middletown, DE 19709, just raised a $3.2M seed round led by Maveron, with Timber Grove…

There is a special kind of quiet that hits when an employer opens the renewal packet and realizes the “benefits” line item is not a benefit, it is a hostage note. Everybody in the room nods like this is weather. Nobody asks why the forecast keeps getting more expensive. Handl Health shows up and does the rude thing. It asks for the receipt. Congratulations to Ahmed Marmoush and Ria Shah (Aishwaria Shah) on closing a $14.2M Series A (February 24, 2026), led by Arthur Ventures with Syndra Capital Partners and an undisclosed strategic investor, plus increased participation from Mucker Capital,…

There is a moment in every sales call where the rep pauses. Not because they forgot the pitch. Because they are guessing. Guessing what the buyer cares about. Guessing which slide matters. Guessing which landmine is buried in procurement. Multiply that by 1,000 reps across 30+ countries and you do not have a revenue engine. You have a very expensive improv class. Letter AI just raised $40M in Series B funding to quiet the guessing. Battery Ventures led the round, with Y Combinator, Lightbank, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Stage 2 Capital back in the mix. 4 months after a…